Buca di Beppo Serves Up the Huge Pasta Bowl

Here we have some different news altogether. A swimming pool becoming a  pasta pool too. Company employees are fashioning a drained swimming pool at a nearby hotel into a pasta dish, which they hoped   that  it would contain  10,000 pounds of spaghetti. That will then be topped off with 120 gallons of Buca's homemade marinara sauce and meatballs. Italian restaurant Buca di Beppo  filled a swimming pool repurposed as a pasta bowl measuring 15' in diameter by 3.5' high with more than 13,786 pounds of pasta and 120 gallons of sauce.

The previous record for the largest   bowl of pasta  measured a weight of 9767 pounds  and was  set by Watniya Restaurants – Sbarro  On March 28, 2009.  After a week of full-time working by at least 20 people, buckets of the cooked spaghetti were dumped into an above-ground swimming pool disguised as a pasta dish in the Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant's parking lot. Six chefs supervised the food preparation and production of the enormous spaghetti bowl that also included more than 100 gallons of marinara sauce.  The feat was achieved with hundreds of on-lookers and Mayor William Dalton of the City of Garden Grove and other city officials in attendance. To commemorate the massive achievement, Buca di Beppo restaurants across the nation will celebrate on Monday, March 15 by offering free spaghetti to all guests who purchase a Buca Large or Buca Small pasta or entree. In addition, for every portion of spaghetti given away, Buca will match it with a donation of uncooked pasta to various homeless charities with a minimum donation of 10,000 lbs of uncooked pasta. None of the pasta from the record breaking event went to waste.  The pasta from the event was donated and repurposed by the local agricultural community.  The weight of the pasta was certified by a notary officer.  "We hit this one out of the park so the record will stand for a while," said Kevin Sheehan, general manager of the Italian eatery. 

   Buca Di Beppo  is an authentic Italian restaurant that offers flavorful Italian dining. In September   2008  Buca Inc . was acquired by  Planet Hollywood International Inc 
   The  restaurant chain  will be celebrating its Largest Bowl of Pasta  by giving away free spaghetti on  March 15th in its restaurants nationwide.  Diners who order a pasta entrée will receive a 14-ounce bowl of spaghetti served with a choice of either meat or marinara sauce. 

The Largest Bowl of Pasta  measured 15 ft  in diameter  and 3.5 ft I height and weighed more than 13786 pounds of pasta was set by Buca di Beppo at Garden Grove, California, United States of America on March 15, 2010.